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Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoScientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their...
Orangutan Heals Own Wound With Medicinal Plant: First Ever Evidence of Self-Treatment
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoAlthough there are documented cases of animals self-medicating, until now, there had been no known...
Orangutan Instinctively Uses Plant to Treat Wound and Even Scientists Are Impressed
PetHelpful via Yahoo News· 1 day agoSadly, orangutans are currently critically endangered. World Wildlife Fund explains that just a...
Orangutan observed using a plant to treat an open wound
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHow the great ape first learned to use the plant is still unclear. Observers have documented...
In a first, an orangutan was seen treating his wound with a medicinal plant
NBC NEWS· 5 days agoRakus’ wound never showed signs of becoming infected, and it closed up within a week. The discovery...
18 Tropical Rainforest Animals You Should Know
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoA rainforest is simply a forest that receives a lot of rain. But when you think "rainforest," the image that comes to mind is probably a tropical...
Wild orangutan observed treating wound with medicinal plant for first time
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHe was seen smearing the chewed leaves onto the wound until it was fully covered – a process...
Wild orangutan used medicinal plant to treat its own wound, scientists say
FOX 8 Cleveland· 2 days agoAn orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of...
How a team of Tampa doctors helped deliver baby orangutan at Busch Gardens
Tampa Bay Times· 6 days agoLuna gave birth to a female baby orangutan April 13 at the Tampa theme park. It was a rare, if not...
Orangutan's use of medicinal plant to treat wound intrigues scientists
Reuters· 5 days agoThe orangutan chewed the plant's leaves to produce a liquid that Rakus repeatedly smeared on the...